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Let me be the one to say that some people are just flat-out uninteresting. I talk to some of these people, and I can play out our entire conversation in my head before it has begun. I say this. You say that. I tell a joke. You laugh. You tell a joke. I pretend to laugh. It drives me insane how predictable it all gets, and it repels me. At the same time, I do not feel comfortable with the following scenario either: I suggest this. You suggest something that gets us killed. You would not believe the kind of effort it takes to find a person with the proper degree of spontaneity.